Violence toward Nurses Working in Family Health Care Centers in Alexandria and El Behera Governorates | ||
| Alexandria Scientific Nursing Journal | ||
| Volume 18, Issue 1, July 2016, Pages 61-78 PDF (227.79 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research articles | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/asalexu.2016.208637 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Rasha Abd El Hakim Abdou* 1; Doaa Abd El Salam Amin* 2 | ||
| 1Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||
| 2Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Damanhour University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Work place violence against health care workers is a common and widespread phenomenon. There is an increased evidence that nursing staff is at such a high risk of exposure to violent behaviors in their work place. Objective: To assess, compare work place violence toward nurses working in family health care centers in Alexandria and El Behera Governorate and identify its related risk factors. Settings: The study was carried out four health centers in Alexandria and eight health centers in El Behera governorate giving a total number of 12 family health care centers. Subjects: 80 nurses from Alexandria governorate and 120 from El Behera governorate giving a total number of 200 nurses. Tool: One tool was used for data collection namely work place violence questionnaire which includes nurses' demographic data, characteristics of workplace violence events, and risk factors contributing to workplace violence. Results: Findings of the present study revealed that 78.8% of nurses in Alexandria compared to 73.3% of nurses in El Behera reported exposure to violence in the last year. Conclusion: The study concluded that a significant proportion of nurses faced violence while providing care in urban and rural primary health facilities. Being a staff nurse, of younger age, and short work experience were significantly associated with workplace violence. Recommendations: Workplace violence prevention strategies are needed to make health care settings a safe environment. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Workplace violence; Health care workers; Nurses | ||
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